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Coun Amy Wilson, cabinet member for environment and transport, said: "Public safety is paramount and at this stage it just isn’t safe to reopen the road. Despite extensive work to remove the bulk of the waste, the road remains extremely slippery and isn’t safe to drive on.

"Following an on site meeting today we are continuing to work with the company to employ a range of tried and tested options including scraping the road surface and using high pressure hoses and detergents in a contained manner to power-wash the fatty residue from the road but so far this has had a limited impact.